"The Fenty campaign does not condone this alleged behavior," said Fenty spokeswoman Helen Hare. "Our canvassers are constantly supervised. Mr. Eccles was not working at the time of his arrest and is no longer on the campaign."

Eccles had started working for the campaign this month.

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